A lot of work is underway as big developers like Capcom, Square Enix and Ubisoft throw huge resources into making at least 50 titles available by the end of the year.But where does that leave gaming outside the VR headspace?

Because a quick look at the slate for ‘Quarter 4’, the final three months of 2016, shows there’s very little for gamers to get excited about right now.

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Sony PlayStation VR up close - Coming 2016

The current list of games for October-December is painfully thin.

And insiders are worried too many developers have sacrificed traditional on-screen gaming to try to make money in virtual reality.

As a result gamers who aren’t interested in VR headsets could suffer a lack of new titles ahead of Christmas whereas in recent years they’ve been able to enjoy weekly new blockbusters in the run up to the festive period.

The handful of big name games likely for the end of the year include: A new Call of Duty, another Skylanders sequel, an untitled Battlefield game set in WW2, possibly Titanfall 2 and possibly Watch Dogs 2.

The latter pair – still not officially unveiled - could easily end up being delayed into 2017, as has happened with numerous titles originally set for the end of 2015 like Uncharted 4 and Tom Clancy's The Division.

It’s also very telling that Ubisoft has decided not to bring out a new annual release Assassin’s Creed in 2016 for the first time in years.

And this year’s big Hitman game has suddenly gone episodic, to spread out the title over several months rather than blow the whole game in one release.

The annual E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles this summer will no doubt help flesh out game release dates for the latter part of the year.

There will, as always, be surprise announcements of titles we didn’t even know were in the works.

But the floorspace is expected to be dominated by VR demos and there’s a growing feeling TV-based gaming will be very much sidelined this year to make way for the VR money train as it makes a big push ahead of the October shop release date.